To the east of the Gardens was a chemical plant, maybe called
Grace Chemical (WAS HILTON DAVIS). Across from the chemical plant, on the
corner of Langdon Farm and Wiehe, was a small luncheonette.
Just north, on Wiehe, was an fm radio station, WAEF. This gets
into the neighborhood of
Golf Manor, which extends east
toward
Montgomery Road.
The brick facing on the Essex House came down in the late 60's or early 70's and the building was closed for repairs.
Daisy Donuts, just north of Victory Pkwy. The name was later changed
to Daily Donuts, ca. 1962, although the Daisy trademark remained.
Branches appeared around town - no idea whether this was the original.
The chain disappeared around 1980, I think.
The above mentioned donut shop on Reading Road just north of Victory Parkway and almost across from Sugar n' Spice was DUNKIN DONUTS. I lived in Paddock Hills just up the hill behind Sugar n' Spice and remember getting a balloon at the opening of the donut store and it poping when it hit the generator truck with a search light in the parking lot.
A tad south, on Victory Pkwy, a high-rise apartment building opened
around 1970. There was a restaurant on the first floor which closed
several years later.
The apartment building above is called the PARKLANE APARTMENTS. I had a good friend over there and would cut through Avon Fields Golf Course, cross Reading Road and go swimming in the pool over there. I remember being poolside (age 11) and seeing, for the first time, the Rollingstone's Sticky Finger Album cover with the real zipper. I thought it was so creative for an album cover.
Next to Loretta's restaurant was Gleuck's Drugs and a toy store. I remember a toaster in Loretta's restaurant that carried the bread slices up on a conveyer towards the heating element and dropped the toasted bread slices at the bottom of the machine.
Next to Capri Pizza was the THree Brothers Market. I worked there the summer of 1972 as my first paying job. I unloaded fruits and vegetables from the delivery trucks, sold the fruits and vegetables, baged ice cubes, sorted soda and beer bottles inside a fenced cage with barbed wire. There was a ten foot deep watermellon pool in the front of the store for chilling the mellons that I almost fell in as I was reaching for a big mellon.
Does anyone remember Cincinnati's first traffic reporter, Lt. Art Merhing. I remember him flying around the city in the late afternoon in the Korean War vintage whirliebird. As a child I would listen for the sound of the helicopter and several time I ran out into the middle of Avon Fields Golf Course just to see it close up.
I would also walk up Reading Road towards the intersection of Reading and Paddock Roads to visit the Fire Station (Engine 9) on Reading Road just south of Debbie Lane.
On Paddock Road, just south of the Norwood Lateral was an icecream place called Berlings. Does anyone else remember the place. I remeber going there in the late 60' and listening to the man serving the icecream tell stories about the area (Paddock Hills) before it was developed.
What about the milk men from Miller Dairy or Cedar Hill Farms, bread delivery, egg delivery or a family named Rizzo that had a fruit and vegetable truck?
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